Last week I was working with a teacher on Chapter 4 of our school culture framework. The chapter is called: Establishing a Common Language. In this chapter, we guide teachers to use 21st century teaching and learning strategies including inquiry bases instruction. The...

Many first and second year teachers have shared with me that their education degree and student teaching did not adequately prepare them for their teaching jobs. Inexperienced teachers are easily overwhelmed in a classroom where all students are not perfectly behaved,...